Movie Review: Gangs of Lagos
June 3, 2024 .
Crime, gangsoflagos, Nollywood
Welcome to the gritty streets of Isale Eko, Lagos, where life is rough, and the only role models are thugs with their ill-gotten w...
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Top reviews and blog posts
November 27, 2025 .
African Literature, Essays
Contemporary African literature distinguishes itself by reclaiming both the right to tell African stories and to define their term...
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December 4, 2023 .
africanliterature
When Babayo was murdered on a train in Jos, on his way to Lagos with the love of his life by a rival, he found himself as Inuwa in...
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December 11, 2024 .
africanliterature
In Broken, Fatima Bala didn’t create perfect characters but they were perfect in the way they lived their lives.
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February 23, 2026 .
Opinions
Adesuwa does exceptionally well and deserves credit for centering women over forty as worthy of love. Not consolation love. Not “s...
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September 8, 2024 .
africanliterature, poetry
Face Me I Face You is a vision and experience for the ages, and an expose to the local everyday epics that play out in the lives o...
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July 20, 2025 .
Essays
It bothers me all the time, so today I write this to introduce the world and soon-to-be A Broken People’s Playlist readers, ...
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Excerpts, interviews, releases and events
June 3, 2024 .
Crime, gangsoflagos, Nollywood
Welcome to the gritty streets of Isale Eko, Lagos, where life is rough, and the only role models are thugs with their ill-gotten w...
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July 12, 2022 .
Glamour Girls, movie, Netflix, Nollywood
This movie lacked depth. I doubt if the makers took time to even read through the storyline, because there was none whatsoever. ...
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March 2, 2022 .
king of boys, KOB, movies, naija, nigerian movies, Nollywood, sequel
Nevertheless, we know is that this sequel is a win for Nollywood. And when someone asks you if anything good has ever come out fro...
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January 15, 2022 .
Chiefdaddy2, going for broken, movies, naija, Nollywood
The only this this movie has going for it is the cast. The makers of this movie assembled Nollywood’s finest but sadly, even Nolly...
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Read essays, deep critiques, and analyses of African art, dynamics, ideology, and philosophy.
June 23, 2026 .
African Literature, Reviews
The title itself is a plea, a lamentation, a bucket of memories tired of the cycle. A question. An anger. An act of giving up and ...
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June 4, 2026 .
African Literature, Book review
The Parlour Wife is short and you could finish it in an afternoon. The writing is also easy to read and unpretentious.
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May 26, 2026 .
African Literature, Book review, Family Trauma
Plot-wise, it was well thought out. No unnecessary gaps, the central theme was clear from the jump. Oyinkan builds tension steadil...
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May 21, 2026 .
African Literature, Book review
For a collection of short stories, Niq Mhlongo manages to give his characters depth in a few pages/sentences.
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May 22, 2026 .
African Literature, Excerpt
Itohan had travelled to Juk to retrieve Ebuka’s badly mangled body and returned it to his old parents in their village in Imo Stat...
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November 19, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt
A Meal Is a Meal is a journey into the surprising and the bizarre, as well as the tantalising and the delicious.
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November 10, 2025 .
Excerpt
In fact, on the morning of my birthday, just after we had broken up, I had spent time in the hotel begging someone else to love me...
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November 7, 2025 .
Anthology, Excerpt, Narrative Landscape
But he walked out the door and said he would go, by foot, if necessary, to Afghanistan, to kill the infidels who were bombing Musl...
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November 5, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt
Those hours waiting for her mother to return were spent in a state of inertia; she wouldn’t have been able to say what she had don...
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November 3, 2025 .
African Literature, Excerpt, Middle Grade
By the time you get this, I will be far away. It is cowardly, I know, but I cannot see your faces and walk away. Please forgive me...
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October 23, 2025 .
African Literature
The Road to the Country is not about reimagining war. It’s about facing it; its chaos, silence and legacy. It’s about the people w...
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September 17, 2025 .
African Literature
Think of Freshwater book as Eddie and Venom: the parasitical aspect, with its supreme interactions with the ordinary.
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